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Goko Dominion Online / Re: Whats happening

« on: March 16, 2013, 07:08:06 am »

i just noticed that if you dont play you lose ranking points. I only realised because my casuyl ranking was a round sum yesterday and today it was below it. I havent played a casual game in a month or so. I dont know when that has been implemented. That might be the first step in correcting the problem, with people sitting on top of the leaderboard. Hopefully the next step is counting a browser refresh as a loss.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Iso or Goko?

« on: March 04, 2013, 09:52:17 am »

Finally "fixed" my problem with lagging on Goko. Turns out it must be the antivirus/firewall program. I just tried disabling it and lo and behold - no lagging. At least not in the one game I just played with it disabled.

However, disabling your security programs it not really a great solution, obviously.

here is something from gokos getsatisfaction, that might be helpful for you:
 
Hi.... can you try this? First, try to login (even if it doesn't succeed it creates a cookie we need for the next part). Then, go here:

http://www.goko.com/games/status

and where it says "Choose Connection Port", choose "Port 2" and set that.

Then see if you can login and play games. We have noticed that some personal firewalls object to our default port so please try the 2nd port and see if that does it.

Thanks!
John Q.

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Dominion Isotropic / Re: Isotropic staying up?

« on: March 04, 2013, 03:29:29 am »

The only way I ever see Shelters is by making custom decks.  They never show up in Pro games or 1 Player at all.

i have shelters and/or colonies in pro games quite frequently. I played with both a couple of times last weekend.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Multiplayer Transition

« on: March 01, 2013, 02:47:02 am »

for 4 players, Colony games CAN be a little better.  If there are major candidates for 3 piling, it's still going to end well before any engines get going.

Plus if somebody gets a lucky platinum a shuffle or 2 before anybody else, they will win.

Had an IRL tournament last weekend that was 4p colonies. It plays definitely better than 4p province games. 2 boards were won by BM, 2 boards were won by engine and one was won by some sort of megaturn that happened with one colony remaining.

I think it's definitely better then 4p Province games. Games tend to take significantly longer though. And your family will be pissed off, if you are going for long turns game after game.

I second that early platinum is gg.

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Goko Dominion Online / Re: Alchemy on Goko

« on: February 26, 2013, 10:36:10 am »

the only "ad" (as you see it) that you will get is on the home screen, where they put the "news" (how goko sees it) about the game. And you will see the home screen usually only 1-2times per session. I have never seen any other form of ads on the whole site. What other kind of ads do you get?

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Iso or Goko?

« on: February 25, 2013, 01:38:15 pm »

i play the bots sometimes, to try out strategies. Lags and freezes never happened when playing bots. I only have them playing human opponents

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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Really bad card ideas

« on: February 25, 2013, 05:05:39 am »

Terminator $7
Action-Attack

Name a card. Each other player reveals cards from the top of his deck, until reveiling the named card. He trashes that card a my get a card costing at most 3 less than that. He discards the other revealed cards.
At the end of you turn put Terminator on top of your deck.

"I'll be back"

Credits: this was inspired by California Governor

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Iso or Goko?

« on: February 25, 2013, 04:51:11 am »

Love Goko except for the constant lagging and occasional crashes.

Is Goko running smoothly (no lagging) for anyone?

no lag for me either. And almost no crashes (most crashes are quits/freezes from opponents). I think the last time the game crashed on me was 3 weeks ago. Also running chrome.

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Goko Dominion Online / Re: Goko log parser - now for Chrome!

« on: February 25, 2013, 02:43:07 am »

another thing i noticed is that the brown background for the ruins is rather dark. It's very hard to read which ruins it is in the log. Maybe the brown could be a tad lighter.

Besides that it's great work. it improves the gaming expirience a lot for me. Thanks for all your effort.

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Goko Dominion Online / Re: Goko log parser - now for Chrome!

« on: February 22, 2013, 04:13:11 pm »

Hi, i just read in the chat that you wanted to try out JoaT with the new parser. I couldnt find you, so i started a solo game. Everything seems to be ok.

Heres a screenshot

and a link to the log
http://dom.retrobox.eu/?/20130222/log.50955175e4b013548a3d58f0.1361567177297.txt

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Iso or Goko?

« on: February 20, 2013, 05:02:48 am »

Also, I attempted multiplayer, found an open seat, took it...and nothing happened.  I just was in the slot, but no game started.  That is no fun at all.

The host of the game decides
  - when to start the game
  - if he wants you in the game (he can kick you out, before the game begins)

so getting a free ride, takes some patience. However if you have the cards getting a game started is a jiffy.

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Goko Dominion Online / Re: Goko log parser - v1.5 DONE

« on: February 18, 2013, 08:27:22 am »

loppo -
If you copy/paste the 4 line snippet I posted above and post a screen shot I might be able to help.

Thank you for the offer. I fiddled around a little bit and found out that i forgot to press "Enter" after copy/paste. so no wonder it didn't do anything.

i feel real silly now.

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Goko Dominion Online / Re: Goko log parser - v1.5 DONE

« on: February 17, 2013, 04:11:22 pm »

this sounds great. I tried to make it work in chrome, but i failed terribly. all i achieved was that goko stopped working. In the dev console there appeared a lot of red words. I admit that i have very little computing skills, so can anybody of you give an foolproof explanation of what to copy where.

Please

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Dominion World Masters / 2013 Qualifier for Austrian Nationals

« on: February 13, 2013, 03:46:38 am »

The next 3 dates for the Qualifiers for the Nationals have been fixed:

23-02-2013 15:00
Go7, 1070 Wien, Mariahilfer Straße 82

23-03-2012 10:00
Go7, 1070 Wien, Mariahilfer Straße 82

25-05-2013 10:00
Go7, 1070 Wien, Mariahilfer Straße 82

Austrian Nationals
15-06-2013 10:00
Bootshaus, 3100 St.Pölten, Harlander Straße 28

details about the tournament structure (german only)
http://www.spieleclub.at/drupal/content/dominion

registration link:
http://www.spieleclub.at/drupal/content/dominion-aktuell

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Goko Dominion Online / Solo Games on Goko

« on: February 11, 2013, 03:01:33 pm »

i just tried out the solo play option on goko.

example with Stef's Dominion Academy 1
http://dominionlogs.goko.com//20130211/log.50955175e4b013548a3d58f0.1360612472268.txt

the funny thing is you can only choose one player if you are in the secret chamber. In the other rooms this feature doesn't work. But it's nice to know, that if you want to try out strategies you can do so.

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Goko Dominion Online / Re: Goko log parser - v1.5 DONE

« on: February 11, 2013, 02:43:05 pm »

I can work on putting the new stuff into Javascript. The problem is my JS is almost non-existent, so it's going to be a while.

Is there any interest in having councilroom run a scraper that grabs the day's Goko logs as well as the Iso ones? If so, the non-JS version could be run as part of the scraper.

that would be SOOOOO cool. And if there is a way to filter out the bot games + the Adventures (at least the ones with different starting conditions) it would be even better.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Iso or Goko?

« on: February 11, 2013, 09:48:33 am »

I play on Iso mainly because of the levels, the amount of people, and the fact that Goko doesn't seem to want to let me log in.

did you try this solution?

https://getsatisfaction.com/goko/topics/site_is_not_working_at_all_for_me

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Goko Dominion Online / Re: Alchemy on Goko

« on: February 11, 2013, 04:55:12 am »

according to this:
 https://getsatisfaction.com/goko/topics/purchased_superpack_2_but_still_no_alchemy

the release of alchemy is scheduled for mid-week.

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Council Room Feedback / Re: Anyone want to maintain councilroom?

« on: February 11, 2013, 03:29:48 am »

The good thing is that Goko logs do show what the starting decks are, so I think for statistical purposes, any logs that aren't 7 coppers and 3 estates or 7 coppers and Necropolis, OE, and Hovel can be not calculated for statistical purposes like best openings and whatnot.

But my Province/Gold opening is SOOOOO strong!

Why not Colony/Colony?

Using Zaps you can't get your starting deck above 7 silver/3 duchies. On a 4/3 that lets you open Province/gold. I have used that opneing in some adventure finales burning 20+ zaps to even out the chances against 3 bots with some unfair strategies that help each other.

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Goko Dominion Online / Re: F.DS room on (public) Goko - Outpost?

« on: February 10, 2013, 05:04:57 am »

Maybe you can just see 7 rooms and no scroll bar. So the last visible room for you should be Laboratory. Choose that room, than go to the room menu again and press the cursor down button exactly 4 times. This brings you to the outpost room.

i use chrome / Windows 8 and don't have the scrollbar either. But with the method described above, you can still get to the outpost room. That scrollbar thing is why i suggested moving over to the great hall, which would be accessible for everybody, scrollbar or not.

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Goko Dominion Online / Re: Starting a Private Game

« on: February 08, 2013, 05:00:22 am »

I have the same problem with the Request to Join option.  If two people join nearly simultaneously, the second request will replace the first.

This is the reason, why i don't use the request to join option anymore. Instead i specify in the games name, what requirements i have; e.g. "for Mischief", when i would plan a private game with you. Other requirements include a minimal rating i want for the opponents like "4000+".

If someone joins, who doesn't meet the requirements he'll get kicked, andd i don't feel guilty about it. Especially if i mention a name in the games description it'll get respected all the time.

Also if you use the request to join option you can't see the rating of the people that request to join because of the dialog box, whereas you can check out the peoples rating that have taken the open seats.

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Dominion Articles / Re: Combo: Hermit/Madman + Market Square

« on: February 07, 2013, 04:38:38 pm »

this is very a impressive combo. the log below shows a game where i pull the trigger on turn 12 for 8 provinces. Playing with shelters helps this combo. Necropolis helps you play two Hermits for two Market square and two madmen.

For a piledrive on provinces you need 19 Golds + 7 coppers for exactly 64 coins. if you pull the trigger with 5 Market Squares, you can gain MS 6+7+8 while you go off. this gives you 5+6+7=18 golds, so you need to get at least 1 gold before that turn.

In my example i had to trash a Market Square during the megaturn, because i had only 2 extra cards in my deck, so i got only 17 golds, but i had got 2 golds on hermit trashes beforehand. So take good care of your starting estates/shelters.

http://dominionlogs.goko.com//20130207/log.50955175e4b013548a3d58f0.1360271535775.txt

Stopping this combo seems rather difficult. In the sample game there was Minion, who does usually a good job in disrupting combos, but Minion does not slow down the combo. So the only defense might actually be to deny combo pieces.

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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Another take on "Blood Money"?: Ring of Power

« on: February 07, 2013, 04:05:40 am »

the idea of LotR dominion is awesome. I just feel the ring of power has more to it than just riches. Of course this power comes with a hefty loss as well. and if you overuse the power you will lose your mind.

Ring of power:
Action: cost 0 (this is not in the supply)
+1 action
Search your deck or your discard pile for a card and put it in your hand. Gain a curse. Trash a card.

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them

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Goko Dominion Online / Re: ratings on Goko

« on: February 06, 2013, 09:45:23 am »

on goko it is possible to have a negative rating and it will be shown as a rating zero. If you lose a number of games in a row, your rating might become so low, that you are paired against serf bot. serf bots rating is so far below zero, that you will lose rating points even if you win.

So you might have put yourself in a hole there. the only way to get out is to play MULTIPLAYER games. You have to avoid the single player mode, there you will be paired against serf bot given your rating.

Choose any bot except serf bot and win a couple of games in a row, and your rating should shoot up in no time.

here it is in more detail:
https://getsatisfaction.com/goko/topics/my_casual_rating_in_dominion_is_zero_and_hasnt_ever_changed_why

https://getsatisfaction.com/goko/topics/rating_wont_change_despite_how_many_games_i_play_and_win

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Goko Dominion Online / Re: Why do the Goko bot ratings change so much from day to day?

« on: February 03, 2013, 10:11:22 am »

i noticed that as well. My observation is that the bots rating raises at weekends and drop during the week. So i suspect that during weekends, when the more casual players are playing the bots are winning more. During the week the hardcore players beat down the bots again.

And i think the ratings dont change that much. for a game won/lost i usually get/lose 20-55 ponts. So thats not that much of a deal. And i guess for the bots its just the sheer amount af games they are in, that cause the huge swings. And even the bots rating is around 4000 +/-250. So that is not that bad in my opinion.